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- From: cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: AIX 3.2 wasn't allowing mounts...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.012803.13261@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 01:28:03 GMT
- Sender: news@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- A week or two ago, we posted about some problems we were having after
- upgrading our servers to 3.2 -- some minor annoyances, and one major
- problem: One nfs server would not allow mounts while the other --
- which also happened to be the YP server -- would. What really puzzled
- us was that we were getting RPC time-out errors -- as if the network
- were down -- but all other network traffic (rlogin, telnet, ftp)
- went through just fine in all directions.
-
- Well, thanks to lots of help from some folks over at UI's CSO
- (Milt Cloud and Bob Booth), we discovered some little 'bad habits'
- that 3.2 wasn't letting us get away with -- like having more than one
- nameserver listed in resolv.conf (and not all the nameservers were 'good' -
- some outdated addresses, and some just plain old mistakes...).
- The strange thing is, these little things didn't cause problems (at least
- that we could SEE) in 3.1, but 3.2 wasn't about to let us get away with
- it anymore! :-)
-
- The two biggest ones were -- as I mentioned -- listing more than one
- nameserver, and listing the 'short' hostname in the TCP menu rather than
- the long one. I.e. 3.1 let us get away with "ibma0" -- 3.2 wants
- "ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu".
-
- Well, we're still chugging along with upgrading the rest of the clients,
- but at least we're back 'in business'! And we've found that passwd
- (or yppasswd) now WORKS on yp clients -- it didn't used to in 3.1.
- chsh and friends still don't work on the clients, but at least the
- error message says so. (The old way, it used to just add a line to
- the local passwd file -- so we had eventually disabled it on the clients.)
-